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One of the most popular American poets of his day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was a multiculturalist before the term was invented. This volume offers a view of the poet's personal life, his connection with his audience, and his efforts to add an international dimension to American literature.Read more...

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"Christoph Irmscher demonstrates the enviable ability to select a dazzling array of material objects from another century, and use them to give shape and substance to the life and tomes of a most appealing subject. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was America's first celebrity poet - a superstar of his day, we realize here in a very immediate way - but he was also a devoted family man and a model of professionalism to an adoring public. The great Bard of Brattle Street could not have wished for a more suitable Boswell on the occasion of his two hundredth birthday." - Nicholas Basbanes, author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books"Read more...